What is the human and environmental cost of music?

Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Why and how is fiction important to women?

The neoliberal consensus, once thought to be undefeatable, seems to have been broken both in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 2008, as well as a series of surprise movements and elections throughout the world in the last several years...

DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...

Bottero offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality...

The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?

Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this military waste when it has served its purpose and what does it tell us about militarism in American culture?

Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...

Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...

Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism...

Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?

Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?

What does Friends mean to us now?

Free market capitalism has failed women...

Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.

Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...